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Xbox Surface? More rumors ahead of today's reveal — Alleged spec sheets mentioning a new Xbox controller have surfaced, just ahead of a ‘big’ mystery Microsoft announcement in Los Angeles. Yes, I said I was done guessing what Microsoft might announce today in Los Angeles.

Xbox Surface: Specifications of a new tablet device leaked — Xbox Surface SpecsOnly a few days after the alleged documentations of the Xbox 720, Kinect v2, and Kinect Glasses were leaked, today another document detailing the specifications for a tablet device named Xbox Surface has leaked.

Microsoft Sets Event For Milk Studios In Hollywood — Microsoft has disclosed that today's mysterious product launch event scheduled for Los Angeles this afternoon will be held at Milk Studios in Hollywood. — Doos open at 3:30 p.m.; I would imagine the event itself will start a little after that.

Awesome News - Facebook Acquires Face.com — Facebook has acquired Face.com! Our mission is and has always been to find new and exciting ways to make face recognition a fun, engaging part of people's lives, and incorporate remarkable technology into everyday consumer products.

The MacBook Pro Strikes Back (With Retina Power) — It was nearly two years ago that I said goodbye to my MacBook Pro. I loved the device, but the new MacBook Air was that good. My Pro — which was only six months old at the time! — seemed like total overkill for my computing needs.

Netflix Quietly Smothers 3rd Party App Ecosystem — On Friday afternoon, Netflix published a blog post announcing a breaking change to their API, and dedicated a small paragraph to the fact that their API terms of use had been updated. On a technical level, these changes will cripple …

Sonos Raises $135 Million From KKR, Redpoint, Elevation — Wireless music systems maker Sonos has a round of primary and secondary financing of $135 million, a figure that is more than double what it has previously raised in total, according to sources close to the situation.

Introducing Thimble: webmaking made easy — Today we are proud to launch a new Mozilla Webmaker app to the world. Meet Thimble, the new tool that makes it incredibly simple for anyone to create and share their own web pages and other projects in minutes. — Thimble is webmaking made easy.

Where LinkedIn is headed next — CEO Jeff Weiner discussed the volatility of the stock's first year, as well as the company's plans for future growth. … ADAM LASHINSKY: Okay, so extremely exciting time here a year after your IPO. IPOs are all the rage again with Facebook's IPO.

Ex-Facebookers launch MemSQL to make your database fly — With Facebook engineers, it appears the high-performance database apple doesn't far fall from the tree. On Monday, former Facebookers Eric Frenkiel and Nikita Shamgunov (who also spent six years as a senior engineer on Microsoft SQL Server) …

Ikea TV goes on sale in Europe, comes with DVR add-on — Ikea's Uppleva TV is arriving in select European Ikea stores and the company just shared some more technical data about the device, revealing that it will also be able to record programming on separately sold flash memory.

Exclusive: Testing Sprint's New 4G LTE Network — Sprint will be switching on its 4G LTE network soon. We got an exclusive first glimpse as part of our Fastest Mobile Networks project. — Sprint's 3G network is painfully slow. Its old 4G WiMAX network has been punted over to Virgin and Boost.

Public Transit in iOS 6 — By now it is public knowledge that there will be no in-house replacement for routing via public means of transport in iOS 6. Indeed if you hold an iOS 6 phone (that somebody maybe has left in a bar) and you try to plan a route from point A to point B you find …

App Developers Who Are Too Young to Drive — Paul Dunahoo went on a business trip to San Francisco last week, where he attended technical sessions at Apple Inc.'s developer conference, networked with other programmers and received feedback from Apple engineers on his six productivity apps.

The future of news: Mobile, video, data — and crowdsourced — The Knight Foundation, a non-profit entity that is one of the biggest funders of journalism and media-related projects in the United States, announced the winners of the first round of its Knight News Challenge on Monday in Massachusetts …

Should we fear mind-reading future tech? — Editor's note: Andrew Keen is a British-American entrepreneur and professional skeptic. He is the author of “The Cult of the Amateur,” and “Digital Vertigo.” Follow @ajkeen on Twitter. — (CNN) — I know where to find the future.

MPAA / RIAA Ponder Suing Persistent BitTorrent Pirates — Later this year, the Center for Copyright Information (CCI) will start to track down ‘pirates’ as part of an agreement all major U.S. Internet providers struck with the MPAA and RIAA. — The parties agreed on a system through …